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title: The city is situated on the Judaean Mountains, 10 km north of Jerusa… — Ramallah · tree and pragmatics
description: The city is situated on the Judaean Mountains, 10 km north of Jerusalem, at an average elevation of 872 meters above sea level, adjacent to al-Bireh. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ramallah» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ramallah, sentence 4

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From Wikipedia, [«Ramallah»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramallah), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The city is situated on the Judaean Mountains, 10 km north of Jerusalem, at an average elevation of 872 meters above sea level, adjacent to al-Bireh.

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**What happens:** situate, elevate · **To what, where:** city, Judaean Mountains, 872 meters

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ramallah». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Ramallah:4
# text = The city is situated on the Judaean Mountains, 10 km north of Jerusalem, at an average elevation of 872 meters above sea level, adjacent to al-Bireh.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Judaean	Judaean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	north	north	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	872	872	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	meters	meter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	above	above	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Bireh	Bireh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | present · passive |  | the city |  | the Judaean Mountains  10 km |  | a average elevation of 872 meters above sea level *parataxis* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on mountain=Destination |
| 2 | **elevate** |  |  | 872 meters above sea level |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ramallah», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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